Some days (aka every day), a girl just needs some fresh air and sunshine. While I’m fortunate that even though my room is on the small size with no cabinets for hidden storage, I DO have two windows in my room. You win some, you lose some…Who needs more storage when you’ve got sunlight, am I right? Even if you’re… Read More
PreK Pushin: Math & Communication Goals– How do they go together?
Graph image by Creative Lessons Cafe Push-in therapy. In-class support. Co-teaching. Whatever you want to call it, going into the classroom to provide in-class support minutes to your students can definitely require some outside-of-the-box thinking if you’re not the one who has planned & is leading the lesson. I know–it’s hard sometimes as SLPs to let go of having a… Read More
Favorite Games for Final Consonant Deletion
As SLPs, many of us use games as general reinforcers while working on a variety of speech/language targets. A lot of times, the games may have nothing to do with the target we’re working on. Some games & activities I’ve been using this school year with my phono kids, though, have turned out to have great opportunities to work on… Read More
Chicken Soup for the SLP Soul
Imagine this scenario: You’re a first year SLP—ready to take on the world after 6 years of school including 2 years of practicums behind you. You’re a little nervous about being out on your own, but confident enough to know that while you don’t know it all, you know enough to be plenty competent in order to do your job…. Read More
Potato Head Play
Mr. Potato Head is a toy that many of us SLPs have used in therapy with little ones. It’s always been toted as a “must-have” for anyone working with early intervention/prek. I love my potato heads (I scored a big tub full of heads and accessories at a yard sale last year!), but I’ll admit- there was a point in… Read More
Craftivity Tuesday: Articulation Trains
I love the way this train craftivity turned out during Transportation week– I think it’s way cute, if I may say so myself! I made the locomotive portion of the train from a die cut at work, and then just cut rectangles from other color construction paper. I free-handed the smoke clouds and cut out a bunch at a time… Read More
